Telegram for Mrs. Mooney

**THROUGH THE HAZE OF WAR COMES AN UNEXPECTED HERO.** On the same day that France surrenders to the Nazis, Jack Mooney–a New Yorker, barely out of high school–hitches a ride to Montreal, where he enlists as a pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force. The last thing he says to his little brother before leaving home is, Don’t forget me, kid. Two years later a telegram arrives: Jack, now a Spitfire pilot flying for the Royal Air Force, is missing in action somewhere in German-occupied Europe. With only the telegram to guide him, 12-year-old Tommy Mooney arms himself to the hilt: with a sling-shot, a boomerang, a bow and arrow set, and an indomitable sense of youthful optimism. Mounting his Schwinn bicycle, he heads for the Brooklyn Harbor, setting a course for London, England, where he plans to recruit Jack’s British fiancée before continuing on to Nazi-occupied Belgium. Thus begins a journey that one reader calls, **A rattling, high concept, wartime adventure–with a wonderfully quirky and incredibly brave hero-narrator.** Soon enough, hope turns to foreboding–as it begins to look as though Tommy is being deceived by the Gestapo, used in a plot to expose a Resistance network created to help downed airmen. Bravery, he realizes, is like teeth plaque. It takes time to build up. Hearkening back to the Hitchcock film, *Saboteur,* and the WWII era mysteries of Eric Ambler and Helen MacInnis, *Telegram For Mrs. Mooney* will introduce you to a truly likable, sometimes irascible, archetypal everyman hero. It’s a edge-of-your-seat, hair-raising, nail-biter of an adventure. A novel with the power to invoke the fearless child within you.